#AFG Iranian forced deployed along the border with Nimroz, Farah and Herat provinces. @AhmadQasani shared this video of Iranian forces deploying artillery in the border regions with Afghanistan in Western Afghanistan.
Footage shows members of ANDSF who fled Taliban attacks and fled to Iran 🇮🇷 In this video, Iranian military officers greeting Afghan soldiers greets them with roses 🌹
@AhmadQasani shares photo of Turkmenistan 🇹🇲deploying tanks and forces to its border with Afghanistan in Herat province. Toarghoanday border crossing an important trade hub fell to the Taliban.
Several Afghan commanders in Toarghoanday port on the border with Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 tells me, we had to hide for 24 hours on the border with Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 but in the end , Turkmenistan allowed us to get inside Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 and we were given safe passage into their country.
Large scale Taliban attacks and fighting in western Nimroz,Farah, Herat Badghis and Ghor provinces have intensified. According to director Herat repatriation and refugees department recent fighting displaced 2500 families in Herat and 300 families from Badghis displaced to Herat.
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#AFG Taliban fighters are in Mirwais Mina in PD7, Kandahar city. And heavy fighting reported closer to the Sarpoza jail that also houses important Taliban commanders and fighters.
Several informed sources tell me that important Taliban prisoners and commanders have been moved from the Sarpoza prison.Heavy Fighting nearby in Qari Bagh,in Arghandab district.ANDSF and Taliban fighting has intensified over the last few days both inside parts of city& district
According to multiple sources in Kandahar, Third battalion for third border brigade surrendered in Spin Boldak — 160 fighters with weapons and vehicles - a stronghold of the Achakzai tribe and the home of former police chief of Kandahar General Raziq.
#AFG Taliban fighters blew up this ANDSF post in Guzra district, Herat province.
Over the last 24 hours the districts Ghoryan, Farsi, Zinda Jaaan, Kohsaan, Pakhtoon Zarghoon, Chasht , Oabay,Kashkay Kohnaaa, Parts of Shindad district fell to the Taliban - other parts contested and Gulraaan district under siege.
#AFG Earlier today,there was a mass surrender of senior police leadership -the deputy police chief for Badghis, the head of security of the police HQ, police chief for PD1,district Governor Aab Kamaray&a commander with local uprising surrendered with at least 100 members of ANDSF
A breakdown in communications reported with access to phones and internet sporadic. Reports of heavy fighting in parts of Qalay Naw, the capital of Badghis province a strategic province that links Western Afghanistan with Faryab province in Northern Afghanistan.
Badghis province shares a border with Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 and Moaqoaar district in Badghis shares a border with Toarghoanday port with Turkmenistan.
#AFG 14 districts have fallen in Badakhshan in less than 48 hours. Baharaak district fell to the Taliban this morning. Badakhshan in North- eastern Afghanistan is a major ANDSF providing province.
Frontline is now at the gates of the city of Faizabad. The airport is under major threat. Badakhshan shares a border with Tajikistan and China. Province has one of the most mountainous terrains.
Baharaak district in Badakshan fell to Taliban this morning without much of a fight or resistance.
#AFG Major reshuffles in the Taliban leadership before the commencement of intra Afghan dialogue.
1. Mulawi Ahmed Jan Bilal appointed as chief of staff for Haibtullah´s office, replacing Amir Khan Mutaqi. 1/4
2. Mullah Daud Muzamil appointed as the head of the commission for civilian casualties, replacing Mullah Abdul Manan Omari. 3. Sheikh Noorullah Munir appointed judiciary head, replacing Abdul Hakim and Mulawai Abdul Hakim Sahrai, appointed as a deputy to Munir. 2/4
4. Qari Fassihuddin, the Taliban shadow governor of Badakhshan, is appointed as a deputy to Zakir 5. Mulawi Qudratullah Jamal appointed administrative head of the military commission for the Eastern zone replacing Mulawi Faiz Ullah. 3/4
#AFG 4TH brigade in Ningarhar came under attack by Pakistani militant group Jaish Mohmmad in Ghorakay village, Mohammand Dara district in Ningargar 18 days ago . More than 20 fighters from Jaish Mohammad were killed, 1 Pakistani National was taken prisoner. This was a base used
for supplies and training Jaishay Mohammad militants. It was located between 250 to 500 meters from the Durrand line. Ammunition explosives, and heavy weapons and a drone have been seized.
Afghan forces seized food items and supplies from underground tunnels that the militant group Jaishay Mohammad had been using as their depots. This was their base for 15 years.